June 2015 www.califrosemaler.org No. 124

California Rosemaler

The Scandinavian Festival in Thousand Oaks, CA Have you been to Camp Norge? In April 2015 (more inside)

Sons of members enjoy a very special place ❦ I n s i d e near Alta, CA. Cultural skills classes including rosemaling take place several times a year. Convention Updates!

Carl Larsons Os Rosemaling class students on April Pattern from Marley 24-26th It was a great weekend! A beautiful setting for inspiration! Look for more Help Wanted CRA EDITOR information for the fall 2015 class to be announced. Announcements & More June 2015 www.califrosemaler.org No. 124 President’s Message

Dear Rosemaling Friends, Thank you all so much for the beautiful card and plant. I can't tell you how much the many cards and notes on Facebook have meant to me. Losing my husband so suddenly and unexpectedly has been so shocking and enormously hard and sad for me. Turning my mind to painting hasn't happened quickly or easily. Bjorg Klevi was in Vista for a class organized by Joyce Field a couple/three weeks ago. She stayed with me and, of course, I took her class. It was a blessing to pick up a brush and paint again. I'm including pictures of two of the three pieces I painted in her class. Well, mostly she painted them... This past weekend Astrid Fisher and I went to demonstrate Rosemaling and promote CRA at the Scandinavian Festival at Cal Lutheran. We went and stayed in her motor home. It was an adventure for both of us. I'm not used to a motor home, but Astrid kindly took care of me and walked me through it. Hundreds of people came to our demonstration area and were very interested in what we were doing. We referred dozens of people to the Scandinavian House on the edge of campus as they have Rosemaling lessons going on. Others within CRA may get inquiries as many were Two pieces RuthAnn painted in Bjorg Klevi's class from other areas. If we know you teach in a certain area, we likely gave out you name. This year's application form asks if you teach and, if so, where. We feel a great need to begin collecting that information as we get questions all the time asking where people might find lessons in their areas. Please join me in registering for our upcoming convention in San Diego. It will be another great opportunity to gather among friends and, together do something we all love. Many hugs, Ruth Ann

Bjorg Klevi

June 2015 www.califrosemaler.org No. 124 Meet our CRA Board Members

2015 CRA Board Meet Jurene While Jurene is one of the founders of CRA, and also a President Ruth Ann Petro VGM! She is the sparkle and inspiration of many

(760) 212-7524 [email protected] friendships that have been started over the years.

1st Vice-Convention Astrid Fisher Currently she is the Historian, she has outlined the (760)721-4194 [email protected] duties of the Historian below:

Membership Lotte Sather 1. Take good photos of all business and convention events for the CRA. (707) 374-1384 [email protected]

Secretary Beth Twogood 2. Label them with names, dates, identifications.

(925) 519-9586 [email protected] 3. Present them to the board for approval.

Treasurer Onya Tolmasoff 4. Gather photos in scrapbooks. (949) 496-0944 [email protected] 5. Be the keeper of past convention info and Newsletter Editor Jill Beatty photos in scrapbooks.

(415) 350-6492 [email protected] 6. Keep CD's of work.

Historian Jurene While 7. Present a report at board meetings. (619) 465-5178 [email protected] 8. Present expenditures to treasurer.

HELP WANTED Expand Your Creative Side!

The CRA Board is requesting help to be the Newsletter Editor for the remainder of this year. Two issues will be due. Fall edition due out in September Winter edition due out in December

Unfortunately Jill Beatty cannot continue as Editor, due to work constraints. She works in a busy law firm, and they are preparing two trials during those times. There will be a need to fill the other positions as well during Convention. "Ask not what CRA can do for you, but what you can do for CRA!"

It is a lot of fun to design and publish the newsletter, get creative! You should be familiar with publishing in the sense of creating text boxes, inserting photos, and editing text. The Board and members provide most of the information, use programs like Microsoft Word or Publisher.

Please contact RuthAnn if you are able to help. (760) 212-7524 June 2015 www.califrosemaler.org No. 124 Announcements and Events

CRA Facebook page — CA Rosemaling Association. Change in Teachers.

Please visit and join. Due to a family emergency, Teresa McCue, VGM, will be unable to paint with us. It is Daughters of Norway will have a convention in July of unavoidable, and I know she has all our support, 2016 in the SF Bay Area. , Contact Katie Allen if you prayers, thoughts, etc. to help her and her family can help and donate any items from CRA members. through this time! www.daughtersofnorway.org [email protected] HOUSE

CRA convention: October 29 - November 1, 2015 at the Courtyard Hotel, San Diego.

OPEN HOUSE

At Jurene & Richard While’s HOME

Thursday, October 29th, 2015

6:00 pm Hi Rosemalers!~ "Your Talents Unmasked!" A Perfect way to Welcome everyone to We are so excited! Our 2015 Convention in San Diego is coming soon! One of my goals this year is to expand Convention. our publicity. You have received a great deal of the information needed to plan and register for our Convention Schedule Convention. Additional specifics will be coming. Lynne Bradley and I have worked hard to prepare this Classes will have the same format as last year. for you. Two teachers, one and a half days with each. We’d also appreciate you letting others get this information who you think might be interested in our Thursday 10 a.m. Registration Base Convention and membership! coating/Project Prep

I’m looking forward to seeing you this October in San Friday 9 - 5 Class Diego! 5 p.m. General Mtg./Election

Happy Painting! Saturday 9 - 5 Class Banquet Astrid Fisher CRA VP – Conventions Sunday 9 -5 Class 760-533-3412

Have things to sell at the Lunch During Convention Trade Floor? No Rush/No Fuss

One of the benefits of convention is the chance to shop and/or sell things at the Trade Floor. 10% of the sales goes to CRA to help with the cost of putting on the convention. Items for sale must have something to do with Rosemaling or Norway.

If you’re wanting to sell rosemaling, supplies, packets, wood, etc. at convention’s trade floor, you need to contact Joyce Field with items and space needed by October 15. Table space is limited. Fill in the inventory list with your item’s name/ number/price — you need to give that to Joyce when you turn in your items for the trade floor. Make a copy to keep for your records. All Eat Drink and be Scary items must be individually tagged and legible with your name, item number and item’s price before they are The Courtyard by Marriott will provide Box Lunches turned in for the Trade Floor. Each item must have a from their Bistro. Purchase them through the hotel. price sticker/tag with the following information : Your NAME, the PRICE and the NUMBER OF Order and pay in the morning, and pick up at lunch break. Eat on the beautiful patio in the sunshine, or take EACH ITEM. (Example: If you have 14 bowls each it back to your room! Prices will be in your information one must have a number 1 through 14.) Please print packet. CLEARLY!

After we tally the sales, CRA will pay you within a Look for Information: by week to ten days after convention. Snail & Email The times the Trade Floor is open will be printed in your convention folder. No sales during class times. Every moment is precious with our instructors. People Fun Things to Do in San Diego (the San Diego Trolly is within walking distance to the Courtyard Marriott Hotel. coming and going during class is very disruptive. We want this Trade Floor to be a happy time for the seller  The Beaches and purchaser. This is a way to make a little money  Sea World from your efforts.  San Diego Zoo  USS Midway Joyce Field  Balboa Park & Museums 310-542-4228  Gaslamp Quarter [email protected]  Legoland  Seaport Village No Trade Floor items  Wild Animal Park are to leave  Hotel Del Coronado the Trade Floor until they have been paid for. Packing for a Painting

Adventure! Look for great tips and basic supply lists!

Rosemaling in Vista CA

Recently a group of Rosemalers met in Vista for a Seminar with Bjorg Kleivi.

It was great class with most students finishing at least 3 projects.

We liked her so much we invited her back in 2016 in Oceanside.

If you are interested in taking the Seminar in 2016, contact Joyce Field @ [email protected].

Scandinavian Festival in Thousand Oaks, CA

Promoting CRA and Rosemaling!

This family-friendly event is a cultural feast of learning, sharing and doing. On the Festival Stage music, songs and dancing changed hourly. Music, dancing, food, lectures, demonstration, vendors and activities for kids made for a non-stop event held annually in Thousand Oaks. Crafts play a big part in the cultural heritage of Scandinavian life. Good for all ages and boys and girls, men and women alike, they could make a head wreath with real flowers and ribbon! Great Skills were experienced! Kubb: an ancient Viking game like horseshoes, but without horseshoes or the stake, or Croquet. Hit the balls through the Dala Horse hoops. A very useful skill is orienteering— navigation. Craft and Food Demonstrations included how to make Karen, RuthAnn and Beth attend and demonstrated Krumkake, bobbin lace, rosemaling and how to spin rosemaling at the festival Astrid and RuthAnn below. wool.

The festival was launched in 1974 as a way to educate and celebrate the history of the Conejo Valley which was settled by Norwegians in the 1890s. The festival began as a celebration of the founding of the college and about 600 people attended. Today the festival has spread to venues throughout the university campus. The Festival Stage and children's craft areas were located outdoors in Kingsmen Park, the vendor booths were on Memorial Parkway, and other exhibits and programs were held in Samuelson Chapel and other nearby California Lutheran University facilities.

This event is sponsored by the Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation with support from California Lutheran University June 2015 www.califrosemaler.org No. 124 Christmas Flower by Marley Wright Smith…Always love your painting!

Jo Sonja Colors: Titanium White, Naples Yellow Hue, Yellow Oxide, Napthol Red Light, Seedlings, Storm Blue, Pale Gold (Optional), Although Seedlings is not a usual Norwegian Green, I like it on this project because of the brightness for Christmas. Brushes: #4 or #6 Flat or Filbert; Favorite Liner Mediums: Retarder Background: Storm Blue, NRL around border with Pale Gold burnished over it. Process: Leaves

1. Stroke MG on the Leaves Small 2. Using dirty brush double load into YO and scalloped 5 x 7 stroke along the front side of leaves plaque can be Clean brush, Side load SB and float over the back side of found at leaves, let dry 3. Load liner with SB and line along back side of Michaels or leaf, adding extra lines down back Beverly’s 4. Load liner brush with NYH and detail along the painting light side of leaves, adding an extra line inside experience. and a line down the back side Flower #2 Christmas Poinsettia 4 Petal Flower 1. Stroke in YO unto each of the petals, paint the 5. Place a tiny puddle of Retarder unto palette, add Bud at this same time SB to make a soupy mixture, place a fair amount 2. Stroke NRL over the bottom 2 petals, let some of mixture into the center of the large flower, yellow shine through, Add some NRL to Bud extending it into the petals. 3. While you have the NRL on your brush, reload 6. Quickly pick up Creamy TW with Flat/Filbert and stroke in scroll leave along the stem lines. brush, set the brush into the blue mixture in the 4. Carry a little of the NRL up from the bottom center and pull petal towards the outside, (two into the petal on the right side strokes per Petal) Continue, reload each petal, 5. Dry brush NYL over the left side of the top 3 don’t worry if you go too far into the center, this petals, follow with TW dry brush. will be cleaned up later. 6. TW and NYL stroke’s to decorate inside each 7. Wipe brush often so as to not dirty the color. petal and down the front of 3 top petals with We want to streak the blue through the white but backwards stroke at tip. keep the petal White and transparent. 7. Load Liner brush with YO tip into NRL, tap it in 8. TW with liner detailing around the flowers and and tip into TW, pull stroke from tip down the strokes down the middle. back of 2 bottom petals. 9. Sharpen up the SB in the center of the larger 8. Teardrops (or Tole Strokes) along stem lines and flower using straight SB, without retarder. YO from flowers as shown. dot’s around the center, a second row inside of 9. One last decorative accent (optional) A light NRL and a dot in center of NYH. wash of Pale Gold into the top 3 YO petals, the 10. Create smaller filler flowers with dots of NRL tips of the 4 petal flower and the light side of the with YO dot in the center/and YO dots with leaves. NRL dots in the middle 10. Pale Gold dots over the YO dots 11. With NYH on liner create stem lines. 11. Stroke of PG inside the NRL Scroll Leaves

June 2015 www.califrosemaler.org No. 124 2015 Convention October (29), 30, 31, November 1, 2015

Pam Rucinski. VGM Lois Mueller, VGM

Pam will be joining us in San Diego! We are so excited Lois will be painting in on a 14 inch Candle to have her!! She will be painting a beautiful Tree, in Acrylics, made by Lusk Scandia Woodworks. pattern on a Scooped Ale Plate. The Ale Plate is being Paints, mediums, and surface will be provided by CRA made by Turn of the Century Wood Products. The Wood piece, Oil and Acrylic paints are provided by CRA.

In Old Town SAN DIEGO (Yeah we’re back!)

Courtyard by Marriott Old Town

2435 Jefferson St | San Diego CA, US 92110 – 1-619-260-8500

Reservations need to be made by Tuesday, October 6, 2015 Room Rate is $99 per night plus taxes if you mention this is for CRA. Parking at the Hotel is complimentary for the California Rosemaling Association. Airport Shuttle Complimentary Service is provided if you make arrangements with the Hotel ahead of time. Shuttle provided by Marriott Old Town San Diego to and from the Airport

Make your plans NOW – don’t miss out!!

2612 Fond du Lac Rd., Oshkosh, WI 54902 902-279-5832 [email protected]

Pam Rucinski has been rosemaling for over 25 years. She has studied with most of the American Gold Medalist and Norwegian Master Rosemalers. She Pam will be painting this Hallingdal design on a received her Gold Medal from Vesterheim Museum in 14inch Ale Bowl, made by Turn of the Century Wood Products 1995. Pam has been teaching Rosemaling locally through the Fox Valley Technical College for many years. In 2003, she received the Instructional Excellence Besides her Rosemaling, Pam also excels in Swedish Award for her teaching from the College. She has taught Dalmalning. She received the Crystal Award for numerous times at Vesterheim, as well as nationally and excellence in its traditions from the Gammelgarden internationally. She is also the co-author of two Museum in Scandia, MN in 1997. Pam has been Rosemaling books: Rosemaling, Trends Traditions and painting and teaching Dalmalning for about 30 years. Beyond, Vol. 1 and 2. As part of her folk art repertoire, Pam also paints Pam has worked closely with the Wisconsin Arts Board Russian Zhostovo. She studied with Russian Master for many years in various capacities teaching and Painter Misha Lebedev and, while on tours in Russia, fostering Rosemaling. She has been a mentor through with Larissa Dyatlova and Nina Goncharova in their the Wisconsin Arts Board Apprenticeship program for home. She has won awards for this folk art at the Green several Rosemalers which includes year -long private Bay Botanical Garden Center’s Christmas Auction, one teaching. She was a participant in the State’s of them a First Place. Of course, Pam also teaches this Sesquicentennial Celebration as well as a month long folk art. Folk Art exhibition in Madison, WI that included both Pam traveled to Japan for a cultural exchange trip as a her Norwegian Rosemaling and Swedish Dalmalning. Rosemaler with the Wisconsin Arts Board and has since Pam was a participant in one of the Arts Board folk art returned twice more to teach Rosemaling there. The cultural exchange trips to Japan. classes involved 5 different cities for extended time Besides her Gold Medal, Pam has won numerous awards periods. for her Rosemaling throughout Wisconsin and Even though she has authored books and taught for nationally. She paints six different Rosemaling styles. many years, she continues to learn more about the many For fun and for her family, she paints birds, Santa’s and folk arts by regularly attending classes to broaden not faux finishes. She is active in three professional only her painting styles but also to find new ways to Rosemaling clubs and paints on commission. teach them. In 2014, she was part of a 3 week study tour/trip to Norway with Vesterheim Museum. 1225 W Main Street Platteville, Wisconsin 53818 608-348-3398 [email protected]

Lois Mueller has been rosemaling since 1977 and teaching since 1979. She began teaching at Technical Colleges and for Rosemaling Associations, but now travel teaches throughout the USA, Taiwan and Canada. Lois has taught at Vesterheim, several decorative painting conventions, Concordia Language Villages, several Sons of Norway Lodges plus rosemaling organizations and decorative painting chapters.

She has written 9 instructional books teaching the basics of the , Rogaland, Valdres and Gudbrandsdal styles of rosemaling. Lois also has a DVD that highlights the basics of transparent Telemark. She is a former director of Rountree Gallery and has taught many children’s art classes at that gallery.

Honors that she has received include: A Gold Medal of Excellence in Rosemaling (VGM) from Vesterheim in Decorah, IA in 1998; An invitation to paint an ornament for the White House Christmas tree which included a reception at the White House in 2004; An invitation to paint a violin for the Lois will be painting in Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra annual fund raiser in 2004 and 2006; A Rogaland on a 14 inch commission to paint a violin for the Society of Decorative Painter’s permanent Candle Tree, in Acrylics, collection in 2004 and having that violin on the front cover of their magazine; made by Lusk Scandia An invitation to teach rosemaling for 2 weeks in Taiwan in 2006; An invitation Woodworks. to paint a piece for a traveling exhibit that took place in Japan in 2008 and that piece has become a part of the permanent collection of the Society of Paints, mediums, and Decorative Painter’s in Wichita, KS; a request to paint an angel for The surface will be provided Decorative Arts Collection in Atlanta, GA in 2010; a tine on the front cover of by CRA the Decorative Painter and the piece is now part of SDP’s permanent collection in 2011.

She is included in the WI State Arts Board Web Page: www.wisconsinfolks.org. She has written several articles for “Painting”, “The Decorative Painter”, and “PaintWorks”. While sharing this wonderful art form in classes, at conventions, and Scandinavian events, Lois has had the opportunity to meet people with similar interests from all over the world. June 2015 www.califrosemaler.org No. 124 28th California Rosemaling Association Convention 2015 Registration

Convention Registration is $225 Registration includes:Insert Instruction, TitleWood Pieces, Here] Paint, Mediums, and the Banquet. Banquet selections will be featured later. Banquet Guest = $55 You may send the entire registration or a Deposit of $50 by August 28, 2015 Balance of $175 due by September 25, 2015 If it is necessary to cancel your registration you must contact Astrid Fisher by mail, phone, or email. Deposit not refundable after October 2, 2014 The $175 portion of the registration fee is not refundable after October 2, 2014

Make check out to CRA Mail to: Onya Tolmasoff 27082 Paseo Activo San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675 Cell: 760-533-3412 or email: [email protected] (use a number one, not the letter L)

Please provide the following information and mail it with your check.

Name:______Email Address______Address______Full Registration $225.00 ______-Or- City ______State______Zip______Deposit $50.00 ______Phone # ______Balance $175.00 ______

Guest Banquet $55.00 ______Banquet Selection (Details TBA) Chicken___ Beef___ Veg____(please indicate for guest too)

Amount Enclosed $______Check #______

Are you Painting in OIL______or ACRYLICS______for class?______If it is necessary to cancel your registration you must contact Astrid Fisher by mail, phone, or email.

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Artists and History

The white chalk paint decoration on the wall is called "kroting." These photos are from the Hardanger Folk What is "Kroting"? Museum founded in 1911 in Utne, Norway. A baby cradle hangs from ropes. On the right is a butter churn made of wood. The Medieval room reconstructs Norwegian lifestyle from hundreds of years ago. Vesterheim is offering a class on this technique July 22, from 9-5PM. You may choose to copy old patterns, or design one of your own. Instructor Johild Mæland, a visual artist and decorative painter, lives in Utne on the West Coast of Norway. She studied rosemaling under Bergljot Lunde in a one-year course on Suldal Vidaregåande skule in 1978-79. She has studied old painting techniques and has a masters degree in art history from the University of Bergen. She teaches courses and lectures on traditional rosemaling, kroting, and other old painting-techniques such as graining, marbling, and leather rolling. The Hardanger Folk Museum

Formidlinga på Bogatunet på Radøy. Dette vart gjort gjennom guiding, gjenleving av historia til garden, og viste med dette korleis det var å leve og bu der rundt ca. 1850. (Translation) The interpretation at Bogatunet in Radoy was done through guiding, reliving the history of the farm, demonstrating what it was like to live there around 1850.

June 2015 www.califrosemaler.org No. 124 California Rosemaling Association

The purpose of the California Rosemaling The CRA newsletter is the sole possession of the California Rosemaling Association. All rights reserved. Association is to promote the traditional art of Reproduction by mechanical or other means is permitted Norwegian Rosemaling. only with written permission from the editor. Patterns Our members are committed to preserving rosemaling as may be traced for personal use, not for resale. a unique art form. If you have something to include, please send it in by CRA has approximately 120 members. Some are expert September 1, 2015 for the fall issue. Comments and rosemalers, others are beginning painters, all with a love suggestions are always welcome. Please send to Jill to study the art form. Beatty, [email protected] or the CRA Board.

Membership in CRA allows you to attend the annual convention featuring renowned rosemalers from around the world. Members also receive an annual membership directory and a subscription to the quarterly newsletter.

The $15 annual membership dues include a subscription to the California Rosemaler, published quarterly, March, June, September and December. We welcome articles, designs, photos and suggestions for future issues.

ANNUAL DUES: $15.00- (Must be a MEMBER to attend Convention) (International Dues are $30.00)

California Rosemaling Association Membership Applications: 2015______2016______

Name ______New ______Renewal ______Mailing Address______

Phone: ______Cell:______Email: ______

May we print the above information in our membership directory? Yes ___ No ___

Do you teach Rosemaling?___ If so, where?______Do you do consignment work? ____ If so, can we give out your name and number? ___

Mail application with $15.00 check payable to CRA to: Lotte Sather, Membership, 520 Twin Pines Drive, Rio Vista, CA 94571

California Rosemaler Newsetter Jill Beatty, Editor 1124 Eddy Street, Unit D San Francisco, CA 94109

June 2015 No. 124

Inside this issue: What is "Kroting"?

Save the Date: CRA Convention 2015 October 29 - November 1 San Diego